A Denton County family grew a lot Wednesday morning when a couple adopted seven siblings from the Philippines.
But a light-hearted, more fitting description for Chris and Jessica Milam adopting seven siblings might be we are "becoming" a village.
"From the moment I read their profiles, I said, ‘Oh, these are the kids for us.’ They loved animals, they loved to craft, they loved plants," Jessica said. "We had an empty house we just moved into. We built a house to fill with kids, so we knew we had the space. We’re self-employed, so it makes it a little bit easier to take care of seven kids of various ages."
The two brothers and five sisters had been split up, living in three separate foster care homes for more than two years."We have two snakes, one dragon, four cats, and one dog," they said.From the beginning, they said they wanted these children, ages 5 to 12, to understand they would all be a family.
"All of them were like, ‘Can we just come home with you today, can we just come today?" Jessica recalled during one of the times they met with their kids."They were trying to negotiate coming sooner and stuff. So, they were just so excited to really be together, but also to have parents that were just going to be their parents forever," Jessica said."I’m going to find that it is in the best interest of these children that the adoption take place.
"It means we’re going to be there forever, we’re going to have a family to take care of us until we’re adults and can take care of ourselves," one of the kids said.
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